Oh, God of our country! Oh, our country's God!
We worship Thy name in its wonder sublime.
The suns of the heavens are set in Thy crown
By Thy legions, the ages of time!
With Thee is each day as a thousand years,
Each thousand of years, but a day,
Eternity's flow'r, with its homage of tears,
That reverently passes away.
Iceland's thousand years,
Iceland's thousand years!
Eternity's flow'r, with its homage of tears,
That reverently passes away.

Our God, our God, we bow to Thee,
Our spirits most fervent we place in Thy care.
Lord, God of our fathers from age unto age,
We are breathing our holiest prayer.
We pray and we thank Thee a thousand years,
For safely protected we stand;
We pray and we bring Thee our homage of tears,
Our destiny rest in Thy hand.
Iceland's thousand years,
Iceland's thousand years!
The hoarfrost of morning which tounted those years,
Thy sun rising high, shall command!

Our country's God! Our God's country!
Our life is a feeble and quivering reed;
We perish, deprived of Thy spirit and light
To redeem and uphold in our need.
Inspire us at morn with Thy courage and love,
And lead through the days of our strife!
At evening send peace from Thy heaven above,
And safeguard our nation through life.
Iceland's thousand years,
Iceland's thousand years!
O, prosper our people, diminish our tears
And guide, in Thy wisdom, through life!

Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarssona.k.a. "Godkrist"of the band þeyr AlbumsIn 1988 S.H.Draumur, a band with Dr. Gunni, released theLP "Goð" on Lakeland Label (UK) as well as on Dr. Gunni's own label Erðanúmúsík (E-10, 1988). It will be re-released by Kimi Records in October 2010. The band will perform on 14. October @ Iceland Airwaves '10 Festival. SongsOf course I have to mention the Sugarcubes classic"Deus". To be found on the debut album "Life's too good" (One Little Indian/Elektra/Smekkleysa, 1988). This song is my personal favorite song of all times, especially in the longer remix version mixed by DB/RS (Derek Birkett (One Little IndianLabel founder) & Ray Schulman).

The Lyrics of "Deus" Björk

Deus does not exit. But if he does, he lives in the sky above me, In the fattest largest cloud up there. He's whiter than white and cleaner then clean. He wants to reach me.

Björk

Deus does not exist. But if he does I always notice him. Getting ready in his airy room. He's picking his gloves so gently off. He wants to touch me.

I once met him, It really surprised me, He put me in a bath tub, Made me squeeky clean, Really clean.

Björk

To create a universe You must taste The forbidden fruit.

Einar

He said hi. I said hi, I was still clean.

Björk

Deus does not exist, But if he does he'd want to get down from that cloud, First marzipan fingers then marble hands, More silent than silence and slower than slow, Diving towards me.

My collar is huge room for two hands, They start at the chest and move slowly down.

Einar

I thought I had seen everything, He wasn't white and fluffy, He just had side burns, He just had side burns, And a quiff, He said hi. I said hi. I was still clean, I was squeeky clean. I was surprised. Just as you would be.

If you look @ the back of the album, it reads also as"life's tooo god"(with an arrow on the 3rd o)
www.youtube.com/v/VU3JrXt_cPk?fs=1&hl&fmt=18Celestine has the song "God" on their album "At the Borders of Arcadia"
Bless, another band with Dr. Gunni on vocals & guitar, Ari Eldon on bass, Birgir Baldursson on drums & Pétur on guitar, has put the song "Spidergod" on the album "Gums" (Bad Tast Ltd. BT26-1 (LP) & BT26-2 (CD)/Rough TradeUSA, 1990).
The Lyrics by Dr. Gunni of "Spidergod"

I think something is going to happen 'cause my mother found the pornomags in the top drawer.But she said, nothing at all, just drew an upside-down cross on my forehead with lipstick.I think something is going to happen 'cause when I went to the toilet to shit, there came no shit, just a hairy spider. It said: HELLO HI HO.
And I asked it, and I asked it, is there a god, is Armageddon coming?
And it said: DEFINITELY NO, and it said: DEFINITELY NOT, NO... NO... NO...

This album is dedicated to Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons.Óttarr Proppé (also singer in HAM, Rass, Dr. Spock) is the voice of the Spidergod. Album was produced by SugarcubeÞór (Thor) Eldon, brother of bass player Ari.Psychedelic, indie-rock, shoegaze, noise band Singapore Sling made the song "Godman". This song is featured of their 4rd album "Perversity, Desperation And Death" (8mmusik/Cold Blood Music, 2009).
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